On-Air Highlights

Call The Midwife Special

Sunday at 7:30pm witf presents Call The MidwifeHoliday Special. This special presentation of the hit drama paves the way for the second season which will come to witf later in March.

In this special, newly married Chummy and Nurse Jenny Lee are hard at work during their first Christmas in Nonnatus House. As the nurses, nuns and community members come together this holiday season, nothing rings more true in Poplar than the virtues of charity and hope. The holidays are swiftly approaching and the nuns and midwives of Nonnatus House are busier than ever. When a young girl gives birth in secret and leaves the baby on the steps of Nonnatus House, the nurses pull together with the community to care for the newborn and find his mother. Meanwhile, Nurse Jenny Lee looks after Mrs. Jenkins, an elderly vagrant who has lost everything.

Call The Midwife is a Neal Street production for BBC. Executive produced by Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, “The Hollow Crown”) and Heidi Thomas, the series is produced by Hugh Warren (“Survivors”).

Based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, Call The Midwife is a moving and intimate story of midwifery in London’s East End in the 1950s. The first season followed a young Jenny Lee as she and her fellow midwives, attached to an order of nursing nuns, navigated life on the crowded streets of East End London. Season one premiered on witf this past fall. You can catch an encore presentation of the first season Thursday nights at 10pm beginning January 24th. Season two premiers on witf on March 31st.